October 10, 2014. President Vladimir Putin (fifth on the right) poses for group photographs of the CIS Heads of State Council at the Independence Palace in Minsk. From left: Sergei Lebedev, Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
